The Burning Archive

90. Tragedy, Ruin and Nationalism in Ukraine

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The Burning Archive is adopting a new, shorter format. Each week I offer you calm reflections on how to use history and the burning archive of world culture to make sense of the crisis we are all living through, and all doing our best to stay sane in.

In this episode I share insights on:

  1. Major geopolitical event - The Tragedy of the War in Ukraine one year on, through the eyes of Stephen Walt's article in Foreign Policy magazine, "The Conversation About Ukraine Is Cracking Apart "
  2. A historical comparison - The periods of history in Ukraine and Poland known as 'The Ruin" and 'The Deluge in the 17th and 18th centuries
  3. A fragment from the Burning Archive, the cultural heritage of the multipolar world - the 1917 essay on nationalism by Bengali writer, Rabindranath Tagore, and how it illuminates the conflicts with the West today.

    4. In the show, I discuss the work of three winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature - have you heard of them all?

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    Thanks for listening and remember 'What thou lovest well will not be reft from thee.' (Ezra Pound, Cantos LXXXI)


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